Re: localtime

["Rasmus Wiman" <rasmus%ebox.tninet.se@localhost>]

18-Jun-98 20:18:00, Georges Heinesch (ghmlist%ibm.net@localhost) wrote:

>When I start NetBSD, all times are 2 hours ahead of the present time.

>It looks like ...

>1. ... either the Amiga system time should be set to UTC, but in this
>   case all Amiga applications would work with UTC (which is not
>   desired) or that ...

>2. NetBSD TZ should be set to UTC (not to Luxembourg).

>What is the correct way to do it?

If you compile your own kernel you could use the option RTC_OFFSET, but you
would still be one hour off because of daylight saving time. I solved that
problem by setting a TZ that didn't use daylight time. BTW, I think daylight
time is a stupid idea... ;)

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